But, just for giggles, assume that it is the recoverable amount: that would imply daily production of more than current UK gas usage.

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Some estimates put the recoverable amount in North America at 1, 000 trillion cubic feet, enough to supply U.S. natural-gas needs for the next 45 years.

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Therefore the amount of mtDNA actually recoverable by PCR in this experiment may well have been minimal.

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Though the total amount of gas hydrates possibly recoverable is not yet known, it seems safe to assume it is sufficiently large that exploiting it in its entirety would throw the climate deeply out of the safe zone, even if no other fossil fuels are burnt.

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